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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:27 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> On 2019-03-29 20:32, Joe Conway wrote:
> > pg_util <command> <options>
>
> How is that better than just renaming to pg_$oldname?
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